THE NEW PAINTER

It’s summertime and art shows have sprung out all over. Every time we go to one we see paintings that might have been done with a computer program. Some of them they are, and they’re often the best in the show. One artist whose work we liked said she used Ulead PhotoImpact, an old program you can find for about $5 on the web. We like it too and have used it for many years. On the other end of the scale is the new Corel Painter, which sells for $429, for Windows 10 or Mac. This is the program to get if you want the kind of effects professionals get. You can recreate brush strokes, palette knife smears, colors […]

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WHY DO THEY DO IT?

“Corel Painter Essentials 4” can turn photos and drawings into pieces that look very much like paintings. It’s not the only program that can do this, but it’s based on one of the earliest. It has been seven years since the last version and with this version the company has managed to take a giant step backward, It’s not that the program’s new tools aren’t fun. Most of them are. It’s that the previous version from seven years ago had outstanding videos that practically held your hand every step of the way as you learned. You worked along with the guidance of a professional artist and the results were great. The company dumped all of that. Now if you click […]

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ART FOR ART’S SAKE AND ALL THAT

Corel sent us their new “Painter” program for review. This is used by professional artists and photographers to create some nice works of digital art. Honda Motors, for example, uses Painter to make digital…

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GETTING IT ALL TOGETHER

You’ve got a loan document, a spreadsheet, an illustration, and a complex diagram — and you want to email them all to a client who doesn’t have the programs that would open those. “PDF Fusion” is a new $70 product from Corel that lets you put them all into one PDF.

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LEGAL HELP FOR LAWYERS

Corel has “Corel Perfect Authority,” a $200 program that automatically creates a “Table of Authority.”

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THE BOOK OF INKSCAPE

A how-to book on Inkscape, the free graphics program.

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GRAPHIC ARTS AND CONTESTS

You can look at the winning works in Corel Draw’s recent art contest by going to tinyurl.com/corelart.

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COREL DRAWS AGAIN

The original CorelDraw was one of the first heavy-duty graphics programs to appeal to business users as well as artists.

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